Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"In this study, we found that osteosarcoma cells acquired healthy mitochondria from platelets, which subsequently weakened their proliferation ability but enhanced their tendency to metastasize by altering their energy metabolism."

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01159-2

"Like most medical researchers, Dr. Pattillo had known about the HeLa cells since he was a graduate student. As it happened, he had also been a fellow in the Johns Hopkins lab in Baltimore that had first cultured them, one of the few Black doctors working there in the late 1960s.
But unlike many other scientists, Dr. Pattillo was keenly focused on the fact that there was a human being behind those cells, and that she had left a family behind. For years he had wanted to honor her contributions to science."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/obituaries/dr-roland-pattillo-dead.html

"In recommendation letters, women and URM students are more likely to be described with personal attribute descriptors and communal adjectives rather than competencies [7,8]. For example, women are more likely to be described as having ‘compassion’ and ‘enthusiasm’. By contrast, men are more likely to be described as ‘exceptional’ or ‘outstanding’ [9]."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165614723000433?via%3Dihub

I cant believe I missed this just because I was, well, zero years old at the time

“The fact is, we’re not really ready,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. “Our local health departments are very spotty with their ability to do mosquito control and to even try to diagnose these viruses and mosquitoes.”

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/21/mosquito-borne-illnesses-are-picking-up-speed-experts-say-americans-are-unprepared/

"Drought in Spain, the world’s largest olive oil producer, has devastated recent harvests, and bad weather has hit olive crops in other major growers like Italy, Greece and Portugal. The United States imports almost all of the olive oil it consumes, primarily from Spain and Italy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/business/olive-oil-price.html

Finally!
#excel #gene #names #data #bioinformatics
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/21/23926585/microsoft-excel-misreading-dates-human-genes-conversion-fixed

Assistant Professor - Neuroinformatics - Behavioral Neuroscience

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor
Neuroinformatics – Behavioral Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champai...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign-27778-assistant-professor-neuroinformatics-behavioral-neuroscience/?feed_id=63030

Madalena screen-printing the artists' book for @anaanajottajotta e @jorgenesbitt's exhibition "A PRIMEIRA E A ÚLTIMA COR".
You can see the show in Lisbon at @arcocentrodearte Xabregas.

#Art #ArtGallery #Printmaker #silkscreen #screenprinting #screenprint #book #artistbook #artmastodon

https://arco.pt/site/news/386/2023-10-06

TIL: (1) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek started #microscopy in his fourties. (2) Fenny Hesse, working in Robert Koch‘s lab, was the first to replace gelatine with agar to grow microbes. https://rijksmuseumboerhaave.nl/english/whats-on/Temporary-exhibitions/

Audition scientists on mastodon, your list is ready! https://leovarnet.github.io/Mastodon-Audition/
Fill out the form (https://framaforms.org/audition-scientists-on-mastodon-1697965056) if you want to be listed here!
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@psychology @psycholinguistics @academicchatter #audition #auditory #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics

SOSS-INTAC: a new gatekeeper of genomic integrity at the interface of transcription and R-loops https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00793-1?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/ursula-k-le-guin

The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian #OTD in 1884.

The main issue at the conference was France's insistence that the meridian should have a strictly neutral character in the same way that they maintained that the metre was a neutral measure. Most European countries aligned their clocks with Greenwich within ten years, Sweden and North America already having done so, and the trend continued. via @wikipedia

#science

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